Rob Brown, Ciera Payton, Nicole Lyn, Apryl Jones and Ernestine Johnson join ‘Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy’ series for BET+
Rob Brown, Ciera Payton, Nicole Lyn, Apryl Jones and Ernestine Johnson have joined the cast of BET+ true crime film series Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy, opposite Taye Diggs and Keesha Sharp.
From Mona Scott-Young of Monami Productions and Eric Tomosunas of Swirl Films, the series is set to debut on BET+ later this year.
Courtney Miller will direct, based on Ron Stodghill’s book Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta. Gregory R. Anderson will pen the script.
Atlanta Playboy follows Lance (Diggs), a successful Atlanta businessman, renowned in equal measure for both revolutionizing the city’s 911 system, and his womanizing ways. When he is found murdered in his own home, questions and allegations abound as to who might have wanted him dead. An investigation into the murder is launched which reveals the truths and suspicions behind Lance’s professional and personal life. Was it a business rival, threatened by Lance’s bid for a big contract? Was it a scorned lover jealous of the place occupied in Lance’s bed? The film, much like the book, reconstructs Lance’s life as told by the various players in it.
Scott-Young and Tomosunas executive produce, and Stodghill serves as co-executive producer with Stephanie R. Gayle of Monami Productions and Abbey MacDonald of Swirl Films. Ron Robinson and Keith Neal of Swirl Films serve as producers.